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[–] 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I believe the vast majority of cultivated human cells are cancerous cells anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    when researching cancer drugs, yeah

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Actually it's used in everything, it's available, it's well studied, it's cheap, and most importantly it grows fast in a lab, so it's easy to work with....

    I wish I was joking, but lots of in vitro human research is done on the poor women's cancer cells when the research has nothing to do with cancer, it's quite the confounder

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